“In various letters and diary notes the artist has explained how the preoccupation with ethnological problems, with the symbolism of colors, and certain literary concepts participated in the genesis of this canvas: ‘I painted the nude of a girl. In...

A young child, Alice Hanlon, faces a strange-looking inanimate creature atop a base reading "Cant [sic] You Talk." This scene, from the Hanlons' "Fantasma, or Funny Frolics in Fairy Land," appears within a five-sided shape forming part of the...

Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at top left: Label for "Smith's Tonic Syrup or Vegetable Febrifuge Caution," signed "Jno. J. Smith Proprietor" and bordered by leaves and fleur de lis; dark image, possibly of fireplace (sideways);...

"In contrast to Mesopotamia and Egypt, no temples or monumental statues of gods, kings, or monsters have been found in Minoan Crete. Large wooden images may once have existed, but what remains of Minoan sculpture in the round is small in scale,...

From the Sacred Gate, Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "The latest work in the group is the Sphinx, which is dated to about 560 BC. All that we found [in spring 2002] was the upper part of the body, partly preserved wings, and the head. We remembered,...

This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the two...

By "various hands." (Lucie-Smith, p.448). The following information is from the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles: THE MURALS OF ESTRADA COURTS web page (http://www.lamurals.org/MuralFiles/ELA/EstradaCourts.html), accessed February 1, 2011: (3rd...